《 国际经济学 》(上)教学大纲（英）
一、课程基本信息
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号 0609312
其 它 中 文 名 称
《国际经学》上
课 程 英 文 名 称
International Economics（International Trade）
课
程
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别 专业必修课(Required)
适
用
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先
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程 微观经济学、宏观经济学
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时 2 学分 34 学时（其中 2 学时为讨论课）
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金融专业
闭卷考试
成 绩 评 定 方 法 平时 30% 期中 0% 期末 70 % 实验 0%
大纲撰写人及日期 方霞于 2006 年 3 月修订, 陈志昂审核定稿
International Economics（International Trade）is a branch of
applied economics which pays attention to explain why international
课
程
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介
trade occurs ,and how the trade pattern should be. It also analyzes the
trade policy and the institutional arrangement of international trade.
By learning this course students should master the ground knowledge
about the theory of trade and the international trade policy.
建
议
教
材
Krugman and Obstfeld: International Economics: Theory and
Policy（sixth edition）清华大学出版社，2004 年
[1] 克鲁格曼和奥伯斯法尔德：《国际经济学：理论与政策》（第五版），人
民大学出版社，2002 年
[2] 萨尔瓦多: 《国际经济学》
（第 8 版）
，清华大学出版社，2004 年
[3] 克鲁格曼等，战略性贸易政策与新国际经济学，2000，中国人民大学出
参
考
书
版社
[4]Jagdish Bhagwati, 现代自由贸易，中信出版社 2003
[5]Ralph E.Gomory and William J. Baumol, 全球贸易和国家利益冲突，
中信出版社 2003
[6]殷德生, 唐海燕,国际经济学,立信会计出版社,2003
[7]冯正强等:《国际贸易：理论、政策、运作》
，武汉大学出版社，2005 年
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二、课程的对象和性质
课程对象：本课程适用于全日制金融专业本科生，拟于大二第二学期授课。
课程性质：本课程属于专业必修课。
三、课程的教学目的和要求
Grasping the theory and policy of international trade can give us a global perspective to the
whole economy. The course’s basic goal is to make students set up the consciousness of
international economical activity, grasp the basic concept of worldwide business, generate an
understanding of many key events that shape our domestic and international environment.
四、Teaching methods
1. Case study: This course adopts two kinds of cases, firstly, logic case would be used in the
course of giving lessons, for stating the theory and practice of international trade; Secondly,
comprehensive case would offer students some historical background and the result of empirical
research to improve the understand of theory.
2. Multimedia teaching: This course adopts multimedia teaching, is furnished with PPT
courseware and audio-video teaching materials.
3. Reading, Write and Discussion: This course would offer students some material to read.
Students should write 2 papers according these material and discuss together.
五、理论教学内容与基本要求（含学时分配）
Chapter 1 Introduction
课时安排(Class hour)：1
教学要求（teaching requirement of this chapter）： The intent of this chapter is to
provide both an overview of the subject matter of international economics and to provide a guide
to the organization of the text. Students need to master the framework of international economics.
At this chapter, students should understand the effects of dislocations due to international
competition, and their experience through travel abroad.
教学重点和难点(The key content and difficulty of this chapter) ：what is the
International Economics. about
教学内容(Chapter Content)：
Introduction
What is International Economics about?
International Economics: Trade and Money
Chapter 2 Labor Productivity and Comparative Advantage:
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The Ricardian Model
课时安排(Class hour)：3
教学要求（teaching requirement of this chapter）： Students should master
concepts such as comparative advantage, absolute advantage, relative wages specialization,.the
Ricardian model, opportunity cost.
At this chapter, students should know about the general equilibrium, and the gains from trade,
the pattern of trade, trade amount, determining the relative wage with a two-goods model under
the Ricardian model.
教学重点和难点(The key content and problem of this chapter) ：The key
content of this chapter is the Ricardian model.. Students should know why international trade
take place, how a nation can gain from trade, what the pattern of trade would be constructed under
the model.
教学内容(Chapter Content)：
The Concept of Comparative Advantage
A One-Factor Economy
Production Possibilities
Relative Prices and Supply
Trade in a One-Factor World
Box: Comparative Advantage in Practice: The Case of Babe Ruth
Determining the Relative Price After Trade
The Gains from Trade
A Numerical Example
Box: The Losses from Non-Trade
Relative Wages
Misconceptions About Comparative Advantage
Productivity and Competitiveness
The Pauper Labor Argument
Exploitation
Box: Do Wages Reflect Productivity?
Chapter 3 Specific Factors and Income Distribution
课时安排(Class hour)：3 periods
教学要求（teaching requirement of this chapter）：Students should master concepts
such as mobile factor, specific factors, optimal trade policy, specific-factors model.
At this chapter, students should be familiar with the specific-factors model, know how to use
graph to analyze income distribution and the gains from international trade, the pattern of trade.
A solid understanding of those topics proves useful in other parts of this course when
students try to know the distinction between the Ricardian model and the specific-factors model,
and why protectionism is so heatedly discussed in the press.
教学重点和难点(The key content and the problem of this chapter) ：The key
content of this chapter are how to use graph to analyze income distribution and the gains from
international trade, the pattern of trade, under the specific-factors model.
教学内容(Chapter Content)：
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The Specific Factors Model
Assumptions of the Model
Box: What is a Specific Factor?
Production Possibilities
Prices, Wages, and Labor Allocation
Relative Prices and the Distribution of Income
International Trade in the Specific Factors Model
Resources and Relative Supply
Trade and Relative Prices
The Pattern of Trade
Income Distribution and the Gains From Trade
The Political Economy of Trade: A Preliminary View
Optimal Trade Policy
Box: Specific Factors and the Beginnings of Trade Theory
Income Distribution and Trade Politics
Chapter 4 Resources and Trade: The Heckscher-Ohlin Model
课时安排(Class hour)：4
教学要求（teaching requirement of this chapter）：Students need to master
concepts such as Factor Intensity, Factor Abundance, Stolper-Samuelson Theorem , Rybczynski
Theorem , Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem, Factor-Price Equalization Theorem, the Leontief paradox.
At this chapter, students should be familiar with the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem, and know
how to use graph to analyze income distribution and the gains from international trade, the pattern
of trade. It is important to understand why empirical results could not support its predictions on
the patterns of trade according the resource endowments.
A solid understanding of those topics proves useful in other parts of this course when
students need to understand the political implications of factor price equalization and the
distinction among the Ricardian model, the specific-factors model and the Heckscher-Ohlin
Theorem.
教学重点和难点(The key content and problem of this chapter) ：The key
contentof this chapter are how to use graph to analyze income distribution and the gains from
international trade, the pattern of trade, in the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem.
教学内容(Chapter Content)：
A Model of a Two-Factor Economy
Assumptions of the Model
Factor Prices and Goods Prices
Resources and Output
Effects of International Trade Between Two-Factor Economies
Relative Prices and the Pattern of Trade
Trade and the Distribution of Income
Factor Price Equalization
Case Study: North-South Trade and Income Inequality
Empirical Evidence on the Heckscher-Ohlin Model
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Testing the Heckscher-Ohlin Model
Implications of the Tests
Chapter 5 The Standard Trade Model
课时安排(Class hour)：4
教学要求（teaching requirement of this chapter）：Students need to master
concepts such as the standard trade model , terms of trade , biased growth, export-biased growth,
import-biased growth, immiserizing growth , import tariffs and export subsidies.
At this chapter, students need to be familiar with the how to use the standard trade model to
address a wide range of issues, such as the welfare and distributional effects of economic growth,
transfers between nations, and tariffs and subsidies on traded goods. Four relationships on which
the standard trade model is based upon should be emphasized.
A solid understanding of those topics proves useful in other parts of this course when
students need to understand distinctions among the Ricardian model, the specific-factors model ,
the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem and the standard trade model.
教学重点和难点(The key content and problem of this chapter) ：The key
contentof this chapter is how to use the standard trade model to address a wide range of issues,
such as the welfare and distributional effects of economic growth, transfers between nations, and
tariffs and subsidies on traded goods. Four relationships on which the standard trade model is
based upon should be emphasized.
教学内容(Chapter Content)：
A Standard Model of a Trading Economy
Production Possibilities and Relative Supply
Relative Prices and Demand
The Welfare Effect of Changes in the Terms of Trade
Determining Relative Prices
Economic Growth: A Shift of the RS Curve
Growth and the Production Possibility Frontier
Relative Supply and the Terms of Trade
International Effects of Growth
Case Study: Has the Growth of Newly Industrializing Countries Hurt Advanced Nations?
International Transfers of Income: Shifting the RD Curve
The Transfer Problem
Effects of a Transfer on the Terms of Trade
Presumptions about the Terms of Trade Effects of Transfers
Case Study: The Transfer Problem and the Asian Crisis
Tariffs and Export Subsidies: Simultaneous Shifts in RS and RD
Relative Demand and Supply Effects of a Tariff
Effects of an Export Subsidy
Implications of Terms of Trade Effects: Who Gains and Who Loses?
Chapter 6 Economies of Scale,
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Imperfect Competition, and International Trade
课时安排(Class hour)：6
教学要求（teaching requirement of this chapter）：Students should master
concepts such as internal economies of scale, external economies of scale, marginal revenue ,
intraindustry trade, interindustry trade, dumping, learning curve, dynamic increasing returns.
At this chapter, students should know why trade can occur when there are no technological or
endowment differences, but when there are economies of scale or increasing returns in production.
Students need to be familiar with distributional effects of trade when motivated by comparative
advantage with those when trade is motivated by increasing returns to scale in production, main
differences between interindustry and intraindustry trade, main reasons why a cluster of firms may
be more efficient than an individual firm in isolation, the patter of trade and welfare with external
economies.
A solid understanding of those topics proves useful in other parts of this course when
students need to understand reciprocal dumping and limitations of the monopolistic competition
model.
教学重点和难点(The key content and problem of this chapter) ：The key
content of this chapter is why economies of scale lead to international trade. Main differences
between interindustry and intraindustry trade, main reasons why a cluster of firms may be more
efficient than an individual firm in isolation, the patter of trade and welfare with external
economies should be emphasized.
教学内容(Chapter Content)：
Economies of Scale and International Trade: An Overview
Economies of Scale and Market Structure
The Theory of Imperfect Competition
Monopoly: A Brief Review
Monopolistic Competition
Limitations of the Monopolistic Competition Model
Monopolistic Competition and Trade
The Effects of Increased Market Size
Gains from an Integrated Market: A Numerical Example
Economies of Scale and Comparative Advantage
The Significance of Intraindustry Trade
Why Intraindustry Trade Matters
Dumping
The Economics of Dumping
Reciprocal Dumping
The Theory of External Economies
Specialized Suppliers
Labor Market Pooling
Knowledge Spillovers
External Economies and Increasing Returns
External Economies and International Trade
External Economies and the Pattern of Trade
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Trade and Welfare with External Economies
Case: Tinseltown Economics
Dynamic Increasing Returns
Chapter 7 International Factor Movements
课时安排(Class hour)：4
教学要求（teaching requirement of this chapter）：It is important to master
concepts such as FDI, and the causes and effects of international labor mobility, and to know why
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Students need to understand the analysis of international capital movements.
教学重点和难点(The key content and problem of this chapter) ：The key
contentof this chapter are causes and effects of international labor mobility, elements explain the
existence of a multinational. Enterprise
教学内容(Chapter Content)：
International Labor Mobility
A One-Good Model without Factor Mobility
International Labor Movement
Extending the Analysis
International Borrowing and Lending
Intertemporal Production Possibilities and Trade
The Real Interest Rate
Intertemporal Comparative Advantage
Direct Foreign Investment and Multinational Firms
The Theory of Multinational Enterprise
The Theory of Direct Foreign Investment
Multinational Firms in Practice
Chapter 8 The Instruments of Trade Policy
课时安排(Class hour)：6s
教学要求（teaching requirement of this chapter）：Students need to master
concepts such as specific tariffs, ad valorem tariffs, export subsidies, import quotas, voluntary
export restraints, local content requirements, the effective rate of protection, Consumer surplus,
Producer surplus, consumption distortionary efficiency losses, distortionary efficiency losses,
gains from terms of trade improvement
At this chapter, students need to be familiar with analyzing the economic effects of trade
policies by describing the tools of trade policy and analyzing their effects on consumers and
producers in domestic and foreign countries, taking a partial equilibrium view.
A solid understanding of those topics proves useful in other parts of this course when
students need to understand some specific episodes, such as Europe's common agricultural policy,
U.S. sugar imports trade restrictions, the oil import quota in the United States in the 1960's.
教学重点和难点(The key content and problem of this chapter) ：Analyzing the
economic effects of trade policies by describing the tools of trade policy and analyzing their
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effects on consumers and producers in domestic and foreign countries, taking a partial equilibrium
view should be emphasized.
教学内容(Chapter Content)：
Basic Tariff Analysis
Supply, Demand, and Trade in a Single Industry
Effects of a Tariff
Measuring the Amount of Protection
Costs and Benefits of a Tariff
Consumer and Producer Surplus
Measuring the Costs and Benefits
Other Instruments of Trade Policy
Export Subsidies: Theory
Case Study: Europe's Common Agricultural Policy
Import Quotas: Theory
Case Study: An Import Quota in Practice: U.S. Sugar
Voluntary Export Restraints
Case Study: A Voluntary Export Restraint in Practice: Japanese Autos
Local Content Requirements
Box: American Buses, Made in Hungary
Other Trade Policy Instruments
The Effects of Trade Policy: A Summary
Chapter 9 The Political Economy of Trade Policy
课时安排(Class hour)：3
教学要求（teaching requirement of this chapter）：Students need to master
concepts such as the theory of the second best , free trade area , customs union , common market ,
trade creation , trade diversion, the infant industry argument, strategic trade policy.
At this chapter, students need to be familiar with the cases for and against free trade, income
distribution and trade policy, and the history of international trade agreements, trade policy in
developing countries and in developed countries.
A solid understanding of those topics proves useful in other parts of this course when
students need to understand distinctions among free trade area , customs union , common market.
教学重点和难点(The key content and problem of this chapter) ：The key
content of this chapter is the cases for and against free trade, income distribution and trade policy,
and the history of international trade agreements, trade policy in developing countries and in
developed countries.
教学内容(Chapter Content)：
The Case for Free Trade
Free Trade and Efficiency
Additional Gains from Free Trade
Political Arguments for Free Trade
National Welfare Arguments against Free Trade
Income Distribution and Trade Policy
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International Negotiations and Trade Policy
Trade Policy in Developing Countries
Import-Substituting Industrialization
The Infant Industry Argument
Problems of the Dual Economy
Export-Oriented Industrialization: The East Asian Miracle
Strategic Trade Policy in Developed Countries
Sophisticated Arguments for Activist Trade Policy
Globalization and Low-Wage Labor
Discussion: 2 hours are distributed in the teaching period
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